Interesting bit of information unearthed by Influx, which suggests that, despite the 10,000 or so CCTV cameras we have in London, 80% of crimes go unsolved.
Ed raises an interesting point about whether BIG IDEAS are sometimes so very BIG and exciting and iconic, that we all just accept them as 'right' and (Emperor's New Clothes-like) forget to actually look to see if they are working or not.
We all know that's how I felt about the Daily Milk ad.
And much as I'm terribly excited and buy the myth, I always have a slight worry that 2012 falls into the same camp.
Or is it just that, from the outside, we can't always see what the real objectives are - e.g. that, sometimes, it's actually the feeling that's important and not the hard numbers.
So with CCTV, (as Ed also alludes to) maybe the real objective is to make people feel safer ('it won't happen to me') rather than to solve the crimes that do happen.
Actually, there's probably no 'maybe' about it on this one - politics being all about presentation and perception after all!